Certainly for the purposes of this book, the distinction between law and equity is not a helpful basis for classification.

当然从本书的目的来说，普通法和衡平法的区别并不是一个有实际意义的分类依据。

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The United States also has a Countervailing Duty law, which for 22 years up until 2007 had not been applied to imports from countries that, for purposes of the antidumping law, were deemed NMEs.

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